In response, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman accused DMK of promoting secessionist sentiments under the pretence of regional pride ...

The M.K. Stalin government has replaced the rupee symbol with the Tamil letter for ‘Ru’ in the state budget logo, amid the ongoing three-language controversy. Before 2010, the Indian rupee ...

Amid the burning language row in Tamil Nadu, the state government has replaced the Indian rupee symbol with the Tamil letter for 'ru', which is the first letter of the Tamil word 'Rubaai' meaning ...

who had designed the Indian rupee symbol, on Thursday, refused to be drawn into the controversy over language and said it is a mere coincidence that his father was a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MLA.

CHENNAI: The replacing of the Indian rupee symbol with the Tamil letter 'Ru' in the budget presented for 2025-26 was to show how determined the ruling DMK was over the language policy, Tamil Nadu ...

The Tamil government's decision to replace the Indian rupee symbol with a new logo - Tamil alphabet 'Ru' - has triggered a massive political controversy amid the ongoing language battle.

The rupee symbol was designed by Udhay Kumar, a Tamil Nadu-based academic and son of former Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MLA N Dharmalingam, and was officially adopted by the Indian government in 2010.